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The names of Bernard "Monty" Montgomery, the World War Two general who outwitted his arch rival, and former prime minister Winston Churchill are on the list.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Meanwhile, Starlink installations are well under way at several rival airlines or are slated to start next year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Retailers have done the same with their own rival store brands.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

It remains divided between the UN-recognised government in Tripoli led by Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah, and a rival administration in the east backed by military commander Khalifa Haftar.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Bingo buddies or rival aunties who made peace over bison burgers.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

In the Super League era, Warrington have been the eternal bridesmaids, watching on as traditional rivals Wigan and St Helens have swept up the silverware.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Savings from a more efficient supply chain enabled Mavis to undercut rivals on price, the brothers found.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The chain faces mounting pressure from rivals including 7 Brew, a privately held drive-through coffee chain, and Starbucks, which is updating its drinks menu amid a wider turnaround attempt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The club could also face a flood of compensation claims from rivals.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

This was a wonderful honor, to be sure, and my rivals were none other than Princess Anne and the trade union leader Jack Jones.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

When your side scored, it was like the gift of life itself — I’ve never been in a louder environment than when Mexico scored against England, a roar that rivaled a jet engine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

The get-rich ethos that defines our time may be only rivaled by our perilously tantalizing obsession with vengeance.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

The extent to which he has reshaped U.S. politics and society is rivaled by few of his predecessors; presidents such as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

One of the industry’s biggest companies gave most of its very young patients an amount of therapy that rivaled a typical adult workweek.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

I was seven, and I had no front teeth, legs that rivaled a giraffe’s, and a fully grown nose.

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan

Michael Jackson is a prime example of this conundrumFor his millions of devotees their love for him is rivalled in intensity only by their seething loathing for his critics.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

Scientists believe it rivalled the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex in size, measuring around 40 feet long with a 20-inch sword-like crest on its head.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

For, although there were always better actors than Richard Chamberlain, few rivalled his ability to hold a television audience.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2025

At the height of her fame in the 1950s and 1960s, Lollobrigida, who was known simply as "La Lollo," was an internationally recognised epitome of Italian post-war cinema, rivalled only by Sophia Loren.

From Reuters ● Jan. 16, 2023

Some were riding to fairs as great as that of Troyes, others to universities which rivalled Paris, where there were twenty thousand scholars whose ranks eventually provided seven popes.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Anthropic's Claude chatbot is among the most popular, rivaling ChatGPT and Gemini.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

More than 2 pounds of honor cords, pins, stoles and medallions — a stash rivaling that of a supreme Allied commander — crashed to the dirt outside the 18-year-old’s Adelanto home.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

Today, YouTube’s revenue is upward of $60 billion, rivaling Disney’s media arm, Wall Street firm MoffettNathanson estimates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

The bank tracked that metric for roughly 45 developed and emerging economies, and found 27 saw a median March jump of 5.5%, rivaling what was seen after Russia invaded Ukraine in March 2022.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026

In fact, what he produced was one of the most painstakingly precise and delightful chess books ever written, rivaling the works of Tarrasch, Alekhine, and Reti.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Claude Fable 5 is a version of Anthropic's Claude Mythos, an AI program rivalling competitors OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

"In the long run, it may well be competing to become the container handling hub in the entire Indo-Pacific region," Joshi said, rivalling Singapore and Malaysia's Port Klang.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

The world's most populous nation has flexed its spacefaring ambitions in the last decade with its space programme growing considerably, and rivalling the achievements of established powers at a much cheaper price tag.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

Ekitike as a £69m cover option probably doesn't sound very appealing, but he will arguably be the second-best player in four separate positions for Liverpool - although Szoboszlai, rivalling Wirtz, might say otherwise.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2025

The most brilliantly coloured butterflies, rivalling in hues the rainbow, begin to flutter from flower to flower, or collect in parties on the most sunny banks of cooling streams.

From The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest by Anonymous